All this was felt as she watched the preoccupied adults around her preparing for a new life, trying to end the yearning for an old one that she didn't know she saw how their eyes searched the distance for the shadows of mountains or the wide, open sky for the monsoons, one last time before it was gone forever.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Latehomecomer'

He had a yearning for the rural life.

ECONOMIST: Jim Corbett

The irony in all this -- particularly the yearning for the "good-old days, " when life was simpler and money less important -- is how antithetical the nostalgia is to some core Maoist beliefs.

CNN: MAO NOW

The apparent yearning for a higher purpose in life by many Chinese could make that country a political volcano.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Haunted by tragedy, stalked by absence, competitive with the dead, yearning for restoration, they experience life as elsewhere.

NEWYORKER: Late and Soon